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School of Automotive Machinists & Technology NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Rules and Procedures
NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Rules and Procedures At the five School of Automotive Machinists & Technology NHRA Factory Stock Showdown events to be held in 2017, competitors will qualify within Stock Eliminator and compete in FS/XX and FS/X class eliminations. Competitors in the Factory Stock Showdown this year will qualify together as a group rather than being dispersed throughout the Stock Eliminator qualifying field as in past years. At fourRead More
Summit Sportsman National Championship: 2 Weekends Of Fun In Florida
The IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship series will open the season at Ralph Hester’s Immokalee Regional Raceway on the first weekend of February. The Summit Sportsman National Championship series gets underway in sunny Florida Feb. 3-5. For the past 15 years, the Immokalee event has been the traditional kick-off for the new IHRA season. The track is located southeast of Ft. Myers and has historically enjoyed great weather during theRead More
NMCA Announces Stock/Super Stock Combo Class
The NMCA is proud to announce the addition of the Stock/Super Stock Combo class to their all-American drag racing line-up. The NMCA Muscle Car Nationals presented by E3 Spark Plugs features a six-race series with contingency and a year-end championship where winners take home a Nitto Tire Diamond Tree Ring. Beginning with the season opener in Bradenton, FL on the weekend of March 9-12, the Stock/Super Stock Combo class racersRead More
ATI Announces Bigger Payouts for NHRA Division 1 Stock and Super Stock Racers!
ATI Performance Products and the NHRA Northeast Division proudly announces a new 3-year deal benefiting Stock and Super Stock racers competing in the Northeast Division Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Events as well as PC Richard.com National Open Events. In this new program (Stock Eliminator & Super Stock presented by ATI Performance Products), ATI will present the winner and runner-up of both classes bonus purse money, which is not productRead More
Class Racers Begin Pursuit Of Summit National Championship
Class Racers Begin Pursuit Of Summit National Championship And The Sport’s Largest National Points Fund In Immokalee The Summit Sportsman National Championship makes its debut at Immokalee Regional Raceway February 3-5 in what will be a historic beginning of a new National Championship program for IHRA class racers. Awaiting participants of the Summit Sportsman National Championship at the end of the 15 double race event weekends is an industry leadingRead More
Top Ten Coolest Paint Jobs
Here are the Top Ten Coolest Paint Jobs according to Class Racer Magazine. We all know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we think these are some pretty cool paint jobs. Let us know what you think by commenting below, or better yet, send us some cool paint job photos. We will be glad to post them along with your comments.
Vic Cagnazzi’s 427 5 speed COPO Camaro
Vic Cagnazzi takes us down the quarter mile is his 2014 427 5 speed COPO Camaro.
Jim Campisano Joins ProMedia Sales Team
ProMedia Events & Publishing is pleased to announce that Jim Campisano has joined ProMedia as Director of Sales. Effective immediately, Campisano will be working closely with the ProMedia sales staff as well as Race Pages editor Mike Galimi and Fastest Street Car editor Steve Baur. As a 30-year industry veteran, early NMRA supporter and former NMCA racer, Campisano is well acquainted with ProMedia events and magazines. “Jim will be anRead More
2017 NMCA Muscle Car Nationals Class and Shootout Lineup
Posted By: Event Coverage Team January 2, 2017 The NMCA Muscle Car Nationals Presented by E3 Spark Plugs is excited to announce its class lineup for the 2017 drag racing season. Always looking to improve the events for both racers and fans, the NMCA made a few changes to the lineup for 2017. One of those changes is the NMCA’s new S3 (Stock/Super Stock Combo) class that will be joiningRead More
Mopar Announces Initiatives to Support NHRA Racers in 2017
Mopar and Dodge Team Up for Factory-backed Support of Amateur Racers *Mopar and Dodge team up to support three factory-backed Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak cars in ‘17 *“Magneti Marelli Offered by Mopar Drag Pak Rewards” program supports modern-day package car amateur racers *FCA US LLC engineers to provide racers technical support at all 24 NHRA Nationals events in 2017 *New Dodge brand exhibit to join Mopar display trailer onRead More
Peter Biondo, Doing What He Does Best
Peter Biondo doing was he does best. Here is Peter at work driving Phil Monteith‘s famed Hatari Firebird. When you get to the 1.08 mark in the video, it appears Peter is closing both eyes, but obviously he is just closing one eye to get better focused on the bottom bulb.
Tyler Crossnoe Joins NMRA/NMCA Event Team
ProMedia Events and Publishing is pleased to announce that Tyler Crossnoe has joined the NMRA/NMCA event team as Race Master. Crossnoe will be working closely with recently hired Competition Director Kurt Johnson, Chief Starter T.J. “El Prepe” Bailey, Race Operations Director Gene Bergstrom and General Manger Rollie Miller at most of the events in 2017. As Race Master, Crossnoe will be responsible for pre-event track prep at NMRA andRead More